On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> wrote: >>> >>> Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded: >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Daiajo Tibdixious, mused, then expounded: >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought of that, its in make.conf & emerge --info. >>>>>> To be sure I rebuild sun-jdk & firefox. >>>>>> sun-jdk has the nsplugin use flag set & firefox has the java use flag >>>>>> set. >>>>>> Still no plugins, grrr. >>>>> >>>>> Did you re-emerge nsplugin after you rebuilt the jdk and firefox? >>>>> >>>>> Bob >>>> >>>> kde-base/nsplugins? >>>> Thats not installed. Explains why Konqueror didn't see the plugin. >>>> >>> Sorry. That's: www-plugins/nspluginwrapper >>> >>> bob >> >> I did not have that installed, so I installed it. It supposed to make >> 32bit plugins work in 64bit browsers, however nsplugin-wrapper --list >> does not show any, >> despite emul-linux-x86-java being installed. >> >> On another note, I installed firefox-bin again, however it is using >> the 64bit plugin, >> not the 32bit plugin, which has me confused. > > Why do you need the 32-bit plugin if a 64-bit one is now available? Right > now, nspluginwrapper is only useful for the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin > which is the only one that doesn't have a 64-bit version. Both Java and > Flash now offer 64-bit plugins and hence the wrapper is not needed.
On my old system I was using firefox-bin with flash & java working fine. I had a fatal hard drive failure & due to obsolete system now have new motherboard, memory, CPU, & disk. On my new system I was using 64bit firefox with blackdown java to load a large applet. The only problem was that it hung after 30mins to 1.5 hours, which I was living with. This applet is updated weekly, and the last update would no longer load, it gets half way thru then gives a blank grey screen. I checked & found I was using sun-jdk instead of blackdown & my efforts to switch back led to that long thread. Now that I have blackdown back in use, I can fully load the applet, however after a few seconds firefox crashes. So now I'm experimenting with other jvms. I was even about to download the IBM 1, however the amd64 version does not have plugin support. I am about to try setting firefox to pretend to be ie for this site, as I suspect they may have jinxed the applet so that it only works with ie. although I have another windows machine & both ie & firefox work just fine there. So if its a windows jinx, I'm screwed.
